A Thoroughly Scientific Investigation Of NASA's Sci-Fi Future

Last week, it was announced that NASA is partnering with
Tor/Forge to put more
science in their science fiction. We like the idea of keeping
the brilliant NASA engineers busy now that they’re no longer firing
shuttles into the cosmos, but we see more than one potential
problem with this arrangement.

Jon Methven is the
author of This Is Your Captain Speaking, due out in 2012 by
Simon & Schuster. He can be reached here, or follow him on Twitter
@jonmethven.